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The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
May Sarton
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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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May Eleanor Sarton
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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We only keep what we lose.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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